ROLE & RESPONSIBILITES

The Chief Financial Officer is responsible for deriving strategic value out of data and driving financial planning for the business. The CFO will provide informed and objective counsel on business issues and will offer technical and experience-based advice to peer executives and staff. Along with the rest of the executive leadership team, this individual should be a strong and proactive advocate for value creation across all functional areas of the organization. This individual will be a leader who will provide hands-on and day-to-day management of all financial functions and best practices.

People Leadership

• Build a best-in-class financial department by promoting and instilling a culture of personal learning and professional development.
• Ensure the finance and accounting team has a clear and compelling vision of 'what great looks like' and a plan around how to achieve it.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with leaders across the company in order to evaluate business performance.
• Participate in leadership teams at the firm and have a range of capabilities to help guide and weigh in on the overall business.
• Entrepreneurial in nature – ideally, an individual that is assertive, diplomatic and high functioning.

Financial and Strategic Leadership

• Coordinate the overall financial activities of the company; lead finance, cash management, tax strategy, regulatory compliance, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), analytics, credit, AR/AP and payroll.
• Provide for and build upon budgeting and analysis capability with insightful, long-term vision.
• Monitor and advise on trends that influence capital planning, real estate sourcing and leasing strategies.
• Champion efforts for raising capital.
• Participate and provide expertise on transaction advisory activities including acquisition targets.
• Ensure that information systems and reporting tools provide the information needed to make sound business decisions and proactively lead the organization through system changes, as needed.
• Work with external auditors and take a proactive stance on ensuring all financial statements are created accurately and on time.
• Showcase expertise setting and communicating goals within an organization by connecting objectives to measurable results, specifically with long-term projects.
• Manage and oversee company controller and other accounting team members in providing monthly financial updates.
• Manage vendor relationships and vetting of potential vendors (i.e. health insurers, legal counsel, real estate brokers, banking relationships, retirement planning, IT vendors, etc.).
• Maximize productivity of the company’s financial resources and optimize financial statements.
• Ensure appropriate risk mitigation through timely, systematic risk assessment and risk mitigation tools and processes.